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Sl\DBY MATTEKS. 



t ~T\ K \K NOVICE:— I have had an elegant 170 lb. 

 ■: :) balance wheel, iron shafts and metal bearings, 

 *— Mp -teel arbor and treadle pivots, masufactured 

 bv the Foundry & Machine Co., of Fort Atkinson, 

 V( r is. at a cost of $34.45. The buzz saw runs like a top, 

 and what is more, when the lumber comes trom the 

 "machine," it is accurately cut. and ready to be nailed 

 together without further modification. Thanks for 

 telling us "what you know about? saws. D. P. Lane. 

 We are really glad that one diagram has been 

 of service, and feel encouraged to try again. If 

 the amount named was the total cost, 'tis much 

 less than we dared to expect. 



We promised last month to tell how to make 

 a Queen cage — here it is. 



Fig. 1, is "a section such as would be present- 

 ed by cutting it centrally, through the middle; 

 tig. 3, the same crosswise. The dotted lines 

 are to represent wire cloth. 



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Let A, A, A, A, represent the four sides of a 

 shallow tin box without top or bottom, or rath- 

 er only part of a bottom; D, D, a cover that 

 slides on as will be readily seen by a glance 

 at fig. 2. C, C, G, is the wire cloth cage made 

 by bending a strip, 1 15-16 wide by 4 inches 

 long across each end so as to form ends % in- 

 ches high. The top edge is first doubled over 

 % to form a selvage in place, of the sharp wire 

 points. The cover is simply a piece of tin 2% 

 by &%■> with an edge folded on the longest sides 

 as seen at D, D, so that it may slide on our box. 

 This box is very simple for it is all made of one 

 piece of tin 10 inches long by 1 5-16 broad. 



In the next figure the lines indicate where it 

 is be cut and the dotted lines where it is to be 

 folded. 



In the first place, with a pair of shears make 

 three cuts in each side, down to the dotted lines, 

 the -paces between the cuts being 2, and 3 in- 

 ches iL-speetively. After making a square fold 

 along the line K, L, turn back M, N, and clip 

 >ff nearly up to the fold; now fold all up 

 square, and fold the narrow edge above I J, in 

 the opposite direction; this turn is not up 

 square but at the angle seen around the upper 

 if the box. When you have got thus far 

 you will readily see that a box is formed by 

 bending it so as to make a corner at each of 

 the shear cuts, lapping the bottom folds at the 

 c>'rmv*. Eight drops of solder from the solder- 

 ing iron, holds it all together and also holds 

 tli!' wire cloth cage in place. 



The apartments O, P, are to hold comb honey 

 • ■; 'pieces of sponge soaked in honey, for food 

 for the -occupants. With food at both sides of 

 1 1 . they could not well starve, and the two, 

 would hold enough for a long trip. The folds 

 in the tin make the cages very strong. We 

 are, ;<s usual, considerably indebted to Mr. 

 urn for what ingenuity is displayed in de- 

 signing it. We would say to our lady r< 

 thai le 't their own sex, without, assistance, 

 the cages complete. 



MOll of Honor. 



Or Department for those w hose losses in 

 wintering, did not exceed cue per cent. 



Novice Mr. Editor can't we stand at the head next 



season, if we don't lose any ? 



Although we should probably, be quite safe ins 

 promising, we will consider the matter ; mean- 

 while we'll listen to friends Oatman 6: Co, who 

 seem to merit the place just now. 



Novice: — Accept sympathy in your ill experience oi 

 last winter and spring, with your "yellow boys." < fnc 

 year ago this spring, we were served just as you have 

 been— lost 38 out of 58 — leaving us but 20 poor weak, 

 stocks to commence with, about the middle of Mav. I 

 could hold some of our swarms in my double hand. 



Notwithstanding all the above discouragements, we 

 built the twenty poor stocks into sixty eight strong 

 colonies, and took to exceed 2000 lbs. honey.' the most 

 part being ext'd during last summer and fall. So* 

 don't be blue but pitch in ; and you will likely aston- 

 ish even Novice the coming season. Will say here, 

 that one year ago last winter, our bees were wintered! 

 mostly on their own stores, while this past winter 

 they were fed sugar syrup wholly. Will give you our 

 mode of wintering some time in future. Have not 

 lost a colony this winter nor spring, and the lively fel- 

 lows have carried off 6 bushels of rye flour for us. and. 

 to see them snake in the flour would make any reas- 

 onable man laugh. J. Oatman & Co* 



Dundee, 111. May 8th. 1874. 

 We don't know how it is with our readers 

 but we felt the need of just such a letter as tin- 

 above. Even to-day, May 26th, one of the five 

 Queens caged to prevent swarming out, is dead. 

 She was put in a cage containing no food, sup- 

 posing the bees would feed her; the other four 

 cages contained food, and the Queens are all 

 right. If the recital of our blunders will be a 

 warning to any body, we'll keep on. 

 IContiued next month.] 



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